Tag: Medicare and Medicaid

Trump administration tells states to end unions’ cut of Medicaid payments to home healthcare providers

Sean Higgins · May 2, 2019 6:44 pm

Two people hold signs supporting "Medicare for All" in D.C.

What’s the matter with ‘Medicare for all’

Joseph Minarik · May 2, 2019 5:28 pm

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders

Biden promises Sanders’ free stuff — without the taxes

Joseph Simonson · May 2, 2019 5:25 pm

Advocates for expanding Medicaid in Kansas stage a protest outside the entrance to the Statehouse parking garage as lawmakers, staffers and others drive in, Wednesday, May 1, 2019, in Topeka, Kan.

Single vote prevents Kansas Medicaid expansion bill from advancing

Cassidy Morrison · May 1, 2019 9:00 pm

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney speaks during an interview with the Washington Examiner, Thursday, June 1, 2017.

Beltway Confidential

Et tu, Mick Mulvaney?

Philip Klein · May 1, 2019 2:48 pm

Budget office warns of longer waits, less access under Medicare for All Act

Kimberly Leonard · May 1, 2019 2:33 pm

Democrats set aside internal feud for first Medicare for All Act hearing

Kimberly Leonard · April 30, 2019 11:40 pm

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden takes the stage during a rally at the Teamster Local 249 Hall in Pittsburgh.

Biden comes out in support of Medicare buy-in

Emily Brooks · April 29, 2019 9:34 pm

The American Hospital Association warned of the consequences of reducing Medicaid spending or the number of people with insurance. (iStock photo)

Beltway Confidential

What a court ruling really means for Medicaid and the truly needy

Jonathan Ingram · April 25, 2019 8:16 pm

Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event.

Beltway Confidential

Joe Biden launches a big boy campaign

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 25, 2019 1:18 pm

Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., right, and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., left, rush to the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 6, 2017, for the scheduled cloture vote to end debate on President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch.

Beltway Confidential

X out ‘Medicare X’

Sally Pipes · April 24, 2019 10:19 pm

The retirement of the Baby Boom generation is already putting a strain on Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare. Absent action, spending on the big three entitlements is only going to explode in the coming decades as the retired population increases and healthcare costs rise. This is expected to drive debt to dangerous and unsustainable levels. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Beltway Confidential

Only cutting entitlements can halt our impending debt crisis

Tiana Lowe Doescher · April 24, 2019 6:50 pm